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Show I DHL SAYS HE SHOT FADS Suspect Held in California Declares Shooting Accidental SAN BERNARDINO. Calif.. Feb. 20.' -That he fired the hot aecldentlly that killed Charles A I'aus was the i onfesslon made veaterdny by Roy E Donnell to Sheriff C Frank Emery at San Bernanlino. Calif Donnell said that when he stood In the dinlna room at the merchant's home on the night of gab. I. his thumb slipped from the hummer of the single-action .38-calibre tVOlVar. He sal0.that he was but 17 ars of .in" .'Imi .-.il'l ih;it thi? obbery wa planned hv AnKHim- W-. W-. aster. th maid at the Paus reside n e i nd cl i-. Brighton, i "l naver intended to kill Faus or to 1 shoot him.' declared Donnell. My hand wa wet with the persplra' ion a ..nd my thumb slipped from the ham- -i When Sherll 1 m mm agM RH tiir. sheriff told Donnfll that he and BH Mrlghtem had first gone to the rear door of the Faus home and there had 9 i.een told by tho Wacaater girl to go to the front door. Donnell said he had g-Vfl hard enough, and he immediately ac ILH For three davs Doniit I bad ilmlyl faced questioners In the count Jail El here. Tonight he admitted that the H tlrst time he began to feaj that oi- H fleers had the evlden c :h. i uld on- S P 1 1 i htm was wnei nigh ILkH on declared Donnell fired the shot. "When the Bh riff told me how we VB. had first cone to the rear door and BH then to it front door I knew It was J all off. " said Donnell. I" I think It wa.H February 1. or maybe; the day before, that tha robbarj was planned." said Donne'l. "Brighton bad tried to get mt to do some hold -up Jobs before, but I had refused. I had never robbed anyone and didn't wint to start, But this night I was out of money and down and out. Brighton said that he bad things all framed toj rob the Eaus house and that w e would i get some money and rings. He didn't' r tell nie the maid woii " everything and let us in That conversation oc-i curred as we stood on the sidewalk on First South between State and Main streets- On Friday evening we left downtown about fi o'clock and around I 7 o'clock we went to the back door at the Faus house and the maid tild us he would let us in : h- front wa P "When 1 entered the dining room ; , I'.r'.ghton dldnjt com.; in. The maid E B stood In the doom Brighton bad I m told me to cock the gun. He had giver N me a .3S-callbre and had kept a L'.r- u r allbre automatic He us handed me tho one he tfld mo to carry. .Mrs. 1 Fans got ud from the table and beggedl Bjf me not to go u pet aire, she told me I P". her mother. I think i1 sai V Then Eaus got un 1 wai n itchi v hLs face and dldn l Bet hln h into his porket, as th" paper said he did-! Well, the gun went off. Mr. Eaus grab-1 led his side and 1 fled. Mis little boy and girl were there with him. "Brighton and I wont to his room a f 1 few blocks away, and J gave him thoi j5 gun, and we went out and separated. I Jfj caught o ar Out in Warm Springs." 1 Ai "I did not know FVtus was d jdSfcA until 1 read a naoer three or four' W' "What do k 'Th i.-v i.-v thinking i i Bh I h ill PBJ not Intention of shooting that man. l BBJ think of Mrs Faus and of those chil-BB chil-BB BH Still, however. Donnell showed no BBj signs of emotion. Bfl "Where Is your mother?" he was! RBJ asked. EH "Sl.o is at Sheridan, Wyo.. he said.! BBB ' She is oiout BO years old now. I Bl haven't let her y now where I am or BB what I have done, but I will a soon BH as I get back to Salt Lake." Then' he burled his head in his arms. Bfli oo |